Also, Wikipedia says that TaleSpin took some inspiration from a manga by Hayao Miyazaki, and Miyazaki’s anime of that manga, Porco Rosso, may have also taken some inspiration from TaleSpin. So, yay creative feedback loops!

Now Panoptica is in a fix. She praised them earlier for following orders without thinking. She knows these orders can’t be right, but she can’t very well tell them now to defy their orders and use their brains. She’s already made enemies of the SH team and the ship’s crew. She doesn’t want to turn her own people against herself as well.

I think her best strategy at this point would be to back down, admitting (or claiming) to be an innocent pawn who is only following orders. Let Rhodey go (if the others haven’t already) and take the ship and everyone on it home. She can always go out again after she’s gotten rid of the opposition.